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Viticulture in the Vipava Valley has undergone significant changes in the last two hundred years, both in cultivation methods and in it’s importance for farmers. In this article, we examined these changes between 1820 and 2020, focusing on the area of the Branik Local Community, where viticulture has been an important activity for centuries. By analyzing archival and cartographic materials, historical and contemporary viticultural literature, and interviewing local vine growers, we have divided the viticultural history into four periods, assessed current challenges faced by wine producers, and identified suitable options for further development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detailed information about land use is available from the mid-nineteenth century onward for the countries of the former Habsburg Monarchy. For Slovenia and Czechia, databases have been created that make it possible to analyze the period from the first half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The processes of changing land use were comparable during the period examined. Nonetheless, the cultural landscape in Czechia was significantly more transformed. Because of the nationalization of land after the Second World War and the establishment of state-owned collective farms and cooperatives, today large complexes of farmland predominate, whereas in Slovenia fragmented properties still predominate, and the cultural landscape therefore preserves many more elements from the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Land registers, or cadasters, contain information on land use because this is vital for land assessment and taxation. Some European countries produced land registers covering their entire territories as early as the nineteenth century. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Habsburg Monarchy produced the Franciscean Cadaster, also known as the Stable Cadaster, which shows the traditional preindustrial cultural landscape and makes it possible to analyze land-use changes or the transformation of the traditional cultural landscape. This special issue is the result of collaboration between Slovenian and Czech geographers, and it features six articles covering land-use changes from the perspective of natural geography, political geography, ecosystems, farms, and metrics. The articles, which explore the processes of changes at the national and regional levels, are based on the textual part of the Franciscan Cadaster, and the local studies are based on the cartographic part of the cadaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Land operations in the rural areas as a challenge and opportunity for development Case study of the Zadobrova cadastral municipality In order to present the geographical effects of land operations, their impacts were studied in the cadastral municipality of Zadobrova. Zadobrova is one of the most intensively cultivated areas of the City municipality of Ljubljana. In the paper, the aspect of a local rural population is highlighted. This aspect represents the main source of initiatives, interests and innovations for the modernization and improvement of rural areas. Appropriately implemented land operations are improving structure of ownership. Regulated land relations have a direct impact on the farmers' effectiveness, which results in higher and more reliable yields throughout the year. Local food supply is increasing and improving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prispevek izhaja iz domneve, da uradni statistični podatki ne izražajo dejanskega stanja nasledstva na hribovskih kmetijah v Sloveniji oziroma na slovenskih kmetijah v splošnem, saj popisni kriteriji za opredelitev nasledstva niso popolni. Da bi potrdili našo domnevo, smo oblikovali natančnejše kriterije in določili, kakšno je v resnici stanje nasledstva na hribovskih kmetijah v Sloveniji. Izkazalo se je, da je ugodnejše, kot kaže uradna statistika.

V prispevku je prikazan in ovrednoten demografski potencial hribovskih kmetijah na Dravskem Pohorju, in sicer so predstavljene značilnosti socio-ekonomske strukture, depopulacije in deagrarizacije, demografske vitalnosti, delovne storilnosti in nasledstvene kontinuitete hribovskih kmetij. Rezultati kažejo, da je zaradi stalnega odseljevanja predvsem mladega prebivalstva oslabljena demografska vitalnost, številne kmetije pa tudi nimajo zagotovljene ustrezne nasledstvene kontinuitete.

The Slovenian geographer and professor emeritus Borut Belec made his greatest scientific contribution in the second half of the 20th century, when Agrarian Geography was characterized by a decline in its theory and by the lack of interest of the leading Slovenian geographers. Borut Belec studied changes in land use of peripheral and border areas of the North-Eastern Slovenia. His active participation in research projects and his early entry into the international area resulted in the upgrade of his research work with the study of distant locations from the perspective of the humanistic components of the Agrarian and Regional Geography. Borut Belec has enriched the Slovenian Agrarian Geography above all by studying land use in relation to the development of viticulture over long periods of time. At the local level, he studied changes in land use and acknowledged their influence on demographic changes, on workforce commuting, and on the marginality and transport accessibility of peripheral areas. He was the pioneer of the scientific approach to the study of the peripherality and marginality in Slovenia. His scientific findings were published in renowned journals and presented at international geographical congresses. With the integration of graduates into his scientific work, he was able to transmit his knowledge to new generations of young geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kmetije se zlasti na obmestnih območjih soočajo s prostorsko stisko, s spori z nekmečkim prebivalstvom in z ovirami v prometni dostopnosti. Zaradi utesnjenosti znotraj naselij jim je onemogočena širitev gospodarskih poslopij ali ureditev funkcionalnega prostora na kmetijskem gospodarstvu. Takšno stanje je posledica neustreznega prostorskega urejanja naselij z vključevanjem kmetijskih zemljišč v zazidljiva območja naselij. V prispevku smo se osredotočili na prostorsko utesnjenost kmetij v naselju Moste v občini Komenda, ki smo jo ugotavljali s pomočjo uradno dostopnih prostorskih podatkov ter evidenc in z uporabo geografskih informacijsklh sistemov. V analizo smo vključili tudi veljavne prostorske akte občine Komenda ter na podlagi tega ovrednotili možnosti za razvoj kmetij v prihodnje. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Slovenia is a country of exceptionally diverse landscapes at the intersection of four major European macroregions: the Alpine, Pannonian, Dinaric, and Mediterranean regions. Terraces, which are a characteristic Mediterranean landscape element, occur in all landscape types, but they vary in terms of density, purpose, and current function. Terraces, which define the most characteristic terraced landscape, are most common in the Mediterranean environment. However, they are also common in Karst-Dinaric landscapes and the wine-growing Pannonian hills, but are more unusual in mountainous Alpine regions, where they occur especially in transition areas to Mediterranean landscapes. Different types of terraces are defined by their purposes: agricultural, viticultural, and fruit-growing. The first type is found across Slovenia, whereas the second and third types are found in hills with favorable climates for cultivating grapes and fruit trees. Agricultural terraces are older; with the declining role of agriculture, increased social mobility, and an ageing and insufficient agricultural workforce, these terraces have lost their former role and their former fields are now almost entirely replaced by meadows. With the exception of the Mediterranean region and some of the Dinaric regions, wine-growing terraces and the less common fruit-growing terraces are the product of modern, mechanized farming, and a different understanding of the quality of vineyard production. This requires greater separation between rows to allow the use of farm machinery between grapevines set further apart. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the influence of single factors of the socio-geographical structure of mountain farms in Slovenia, independent of each other, as well as in conjunction with each other upon farm succession statuses and decisions. The methodology is described in detail, especially the discrete choice models by which these influences were assessed. The results were linked with findings from other researchers and show that the householder's perceptions about mountain farms, work and life on the farm, as well as tradition hold the most vital role with regard to succession on mountain farms. At the same time, in order to ensure succession and continuation of farming on the mountain farm, an appropriate economic basis must be assured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the influence of single factors of the socio-geographical structure of mountain farms in Slovenia, independent of each other, as well as in conjunction with each other upon farm succession statuses and decisions. The methodology is described in detail, especially the discrete choice models by which these influences were assessed. The results were linked with findings from other researchers and show that the householder's perceptions about mountain farms, work and life on the farm, as well as tradition hold the most vital role with regard to succession on mountain farms. At the same time, in order to ensure succession and continuation of farming on the mountain farm, an appropriate economic basis must be assured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]